Giovan Battista Pigna
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BornGiovan Battista Nicolucci 
8 April 1529
8 April 1529
Died4 November 1575 (aged 46)
(aged 46)OccupationWriter
MovementRenaissance humanism
Giovan Battista Pigna | |
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| Born | Giovan Battista Nicolucci 8 April 1529 |
| Died | 4 November 1575 (aged 46) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Movement | Renaissance humanism |
Giovan Battista Pigna (April 8, 1529 – November 4, 1575) was an Italian humanist, poet and historian from Ferrara. A reformer of the University of Ferrara, Pigna was secretary to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and court historian at Ferrara.[1]
Pigna's I romanzi (1554) argued that chivalric romances like those of Ariosto were a modern form of poetry equal to those considered by Aristotle's Poetics. Torquato Tasso, who succeeded Pigna as court historian, attacked Pigna's defence of Ariostan poetry in his Discorsi dell'arte poetica.[1]
- I romanzi di M. Giouan Battita Pigna ... divisi in tre libri. Ne quali della poesia, & della vita dell'Ariosto con nuouo modo si tratta , 1554
- (ed.) Poetica Horatiana, 1561
- Statuta urbis Ferrariae nuper reformata (in Latin). Ferrara: Francesco Rossi. 1567.
- Statuta urbis Ferrariae nuper reformata (in Latin). Ferrara: Francesco Rossi. 1567.
- Historia de principi di Este, 1570
